Syberia 3 (2017)

♫ Le jeu part avec une superbe Bande originale, des graphismes plus modernes (heureusement !) et une direction artistique de son univers toujours aussi solide et travaillée. Ca donne vraiment envie ! Malheureusement, la maniabilité générale est pénible, les énigmes sont ennuyeuses et laborieuses et le nouveau périple ne me convainc pas du tout. C'est vraiment dommage car les intentions sont là, mais les idées ont l'air de manquer. La cohérence dans un point and click est souvent un peu discutable, mais ici c'est pire que tout. Les différents paysages, même si architecturalement très réussis, n'arrivent pas à m'emporter comme c'était le cas dans Syberia 1 et 2, la faute peut être à des environnements trop vastes inutilement et des teintes un peu marrons et ternes. Les autres soucis techniques, bugs, ralentissement, chargements et les caméras folles n'aident pas à apprécier l'aventure et s'immerger pleinement.

🦴 Pourtant, Syberia 3 voulait dire des choses, avec son peuple de nomades et des sujets comme la radioactivité (à géométrie variable ^^). Malheureusement nous sommes là dans des caricatures ( comme les méchants principaux qui sont d'ailleurs des clichés de série B) et le peuple semble être aussi naïf et incapable que des enfants qu'on doit, nous, Kate walker l'américaine, chaperonner tout le long ; même et surtout quand il s'agit de leurs propres rituels ancestraux ! Vraiment très Douteux ! Le système de dialogue est un gadget inutile. Quant à l'histoire, sans trop en dire, elle se permet même de gâcher des moments forts et touchant des épisodes précédents et de ne rien expliquer quant à son début de scénario (pourquoi Kate walker est retrouvée à moitié morte au départ du jeu...mystère !)

I finished it but at the cost of my sanity. If you liked Syberia 1 and 2, do not play this one. The mechanics are nothing like the first two and the story is boring. In this one, you accompany the Youkols in their migration and are pursued by some shoddy villans. The story with the Youkols is not as interesting as the first two games and the villans are just there because the people who made this game wanted them to be. The reason why they're pursuing Kate is stupid.

The mechanics feel clunky and while walking you bump into everyone and everything because you can't properly see where you're going. The camera also shifts perspectives when you're walking into another area and doesn't give you enough time to orient, making you accidentally exit the way you came. They removed the option to skip the dialogue which was such a bad decision because the voice acting is atrocious and the conversations are tedious. If you do end up playing the game, please for the sake of your sanity, enable visual cues because I would have rage quit this game a long time ago without them.

I cannot fathom why they suddenly decide to do an open-world walking simulator when the reason people liked the first two games was precise because of its purely point and click mechanic. They should have kept that and just add updated graphics. The story would still be boring but I would at least be able to bear it.

My disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined. I basically rage quit this game when I got to the point where you have to change the gears for the ice breakers. After trying at least 15 times, I went to a forum so I can figure out if im doing it right. My train of thinking was right but it turns out that this particular mechanic is nearly impossible to do with a mouse. After trying another 20 times, I can conclude that this game is all kinds of wonky. This isn't the only instance where the mechanics of the game made me frustrated but it sure was the straw that broke the camel's back. I wanted to finish it because I enjoy the story. Now im not sure if I ever will. I'm not inclined to buy a controller just to complete this one puzzle.

I understand the devs wanted to make this game more modern so they can bring in new players and get with the technology. But the players who are checking for Syberia 3 already enjoy the previous old games. Syberia 3 is a direct sequel to the second game, so new players won't be as inclined to pick it up without playing the first two. At that point, they would only be willing to play the third because they loved the story and gameplay. Then you pick this up and suddenly you find yourself in an open-world scenario with totally different mechanics. We already liked the mechanics of the first two, so why fix it if it ain't broke.